This article describes how there exists ample experimental evidence demonstrating a positive wage-effort relationship in which the results from the employee's effort lead to deterministic firm payoffs. The authors thus investigate a reframed version of the gift-exchange game in which the firms'...

This article presents the relationship between a firm's advertisement spending and sales in a duopoly when information about the competitors' advertisement spending is unavailable. The competitive interaction between the firms has been modeled as imperfect information Cournot and Stackelberg...

This article describes how rank aggregation focuses on synthesizing a single ranked list based on rankings supplied by multiple judges. Such aggregations are widely applied in the areas of information retrieval, web search, and data mining. The problem of rank aggregation has been shown to be...